The streets are no place for their young lives to play out AT 13, Satender Sharma ran away from home to escape an abusive father. His father beat the entire family mercilessly and even killed his mother by hitting her head into a wall. To get away from a life of more abuse, a petrified…
With increased inequalities post Covid, empowering the weak is crucial ON December 10, 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) – and since then the day has been marked as #HumanRightsDay. The UDHR is a milestone document that proclaims “the inalienable rights which everyone is entitled to as…
An intervention to break the cycle of malnutrition and illiteracy shows promise LIKE many other tribal children, Sibani Wadaka was born prematurely and weighed only 1.4 kgs at birth. Her mother visited several district hospitals in Odisha to improve the infant’s health and increase her chances of survival. She was even kept under observation at…
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Join our mission to protect vulnerable children from deadly diseases IF there is one thing that the ongoing pandemic has laid bare, it is how critical vaccination is. Scientists are speeding ahead to produce an effective vaccine for Covid-19 that has already claimed over one million lives worldwide. People in every corner of the globe…
Online classes are a challenge without access to phones and data DIGITAL learning for young children is a challenge, period. But when the child belongs to a low-income group family or one that lives in an area with poor connectivity this becomes a real hurdle. And this has been the reality of millions of children…
Help children from poor families have a fighting chance to survive WHILE India struggles with the Coronavirus pandemic, other serious and prolonged illnesses have been ignored. Childhood cancer is one of them. India has the highest prevalence of the disease in the world, with a child diagnosed every 12 minutes. Cancer in children is rare…
Our joint efforts can help save young lives India has 29.6 million orphaned and abandoned children, as per the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Millions of children are abandoned each year by their parents all too often for several reasons. They are put in plastics bags and left to die in garbage dumps or put…
Over one lakh are found on station platforms each year All across India, over 1 crore children live on the streets. Nearly 1.2 lakh children amongst them are found on railway platforms each year. Every five minutes a child arrives alone at a railway station, usually escaping abuse of some sort. They look to make…
With schools shut, the pandemic has also robbed them of midday meals INDIA accounts for over a third of the world’s population of malnourished children – one in every three children in the country fall into that category. And this was even before the coronavirus struck. Now experts fear the numbers will be catastrophic. Naina…